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An essentially geometrically frustrated magnetic object: an exact solution

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-04-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Starting from the archetypical geometrically frustrated magnetic objects -- equilateral triangle and tetrahedron -- we consider an imaginary object: a multidimensional tetrahedron with spins 1/21/2 in the each vertex and equal Heisenberg magnetic exchange along each edge. Many-particle case is obtained by setting dimensionality dd to high numbers, hence providing likely the most geometrically frustrated magnetic system ever possible. This problem has an exact solution for each dd, obtained by simple student-level approach. As a result, this imaginary object clearly demonstrates at dd\to{}\infty all the features characteristic for the real geometrically frustrated magnetic systems: highly-degenerate ground state; absence of the magnetic phase transition; perfect Curie-Weiss behavior down to T0T\to{}0; and vanishingly small exchange energy per one spin.

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@article{arxiv.1504.05622,
  title  = {An essentially geometrically frustrated magnetic object: an exact solution},
  author = {A. Vl. Andrianov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05622},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures

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